Re: howto avoid ~irc in %~ ?

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 14,  1:16pm, Andy Spiegl wrote:
} 
} I use %~ in my prompt [but then] when I change to
}  /var/www
} my prompt is:
}  machine:~irc/www>

Zsh doesn't do this all by itself.  You must at some point have used ~irc
before zsh would add an entry for irc to its hash table of named dirs.

E.g. starting from `zsh -f':

zagzig% cd /home/ftp
zagzig% pwd
/home/ftp
zagzig% print -P %~
/home/ftp

But:

zagzig% cd ~ftp
zagzig% pwd
/home/ftp
zagzig% print -P %~
~ftp

So if you don't want zsh to use the abbreviations, don't use them yourself.

Zsh does have a rule that it won't show the tilde-form if the real name of
the directory is shorter, but in the case of ~irc and /var they happen to
be exactly the same length.

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